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Paddy Power Funded FIFA Campaign in Jeopardy

LONDON — (Associated Press) - Even if David Ginola gains the nominations required by Thursday's deadline to stand against Sepp Blatter, his improbable bookmaker-funded campaign could be scuppered by FIFA's gambling rules.

Ginola's campaign is being organized by stunt-prone Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, which is paying the former France international 250,000 pounds ($375,000) to seek the FIFA presidency.

Submitted by Associated Press on, Jan/26/2015

FantasyAces.com Review – Featuring Ground Breaking SalaryPro Flex Salary Cap

Gambling911.com has your FantasyAces.com review including the pros and cons and what differentiates FantasyAces.com from the rest of the Daily Fantasy Sports pack.  You can visit their website here.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/25/2015

FanWars.com Review – Daily Fantasy Sports Sites – Affiliate Program Review

Gambling911.com has your FanWars.com review where we point out the pros and cons of this site, which is gaining popularity amongst Fantasy players.  You can view their website here.  

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/25/2015

Fantasy Sports Site Maximum Fantasy Sports.com Offering Super Bowl Action

Gambling911.com intrepid reporter Thomas Somach reports that Daily Fantasy Sports site MaximumFantasySports.com will be offering Fantasy action on the Super Bowl.  While contests are illegal, pools are not.   Here’s Somach…

Gambling 911 recently reported how fantasy sports leagues won't be offering contests for the Super Bowl, because the Federal law that permits fantasy sports wagering stipulates it must be based on multiple games, and the Super Bowl is just one game, thus ineligible for fantasy.

Submitted by Thomas Somach on, Jan/22/2015

VICTIV.com Review – Daily Fantasy Sports

Gambling911.com, a site you have trusted since 1999 to bring you the latest news pertaining to the gaming and Fantasy Sports sector, has its VICTIV.com review.  This is one of the newest and cleanest of the Daily Fantasy Sports sites to emerge during the final months of 2014.  VICTIV.com, developed by Ruckus Gaming LLC, is based out of the epicenter of creativity in the United States: Austin, Texas.  The website can be found here.

Submitted by Payton on, Jan/20/2015

FanDuel Revenues Hit $37 Mil in 4th Qtr, Up From $7.4 Mil the Same Period Last Year

The world’s largest Fantasy sports site, FanDuel.com, has seen its revenues reach $37 million for the 4th quarter ending 2014.  That’s quite an increase from $7.4 million the same period last year.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/20/2015

New Credit Card Code for Online Gambling in New Jersey Should Reduce Decline Rate

A new credit card code is set to be introduced for online gambling in New Jersey come Springtime, thus helping to reduce decline rates.

Reports suggest that the approval rate for Visa cards has been around 73% on average for Visa with a dismal 44% for Mastercard.  American Express does not allow transactions for online gambling at this time.

While online gambling is legal in New Jersey, many credit card issuing banks, including Wells Fargo, have refused to allow transactions for Web gambling due to federal legislation.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/20/2015

William Hill Shares Sent Spiraling After Bookies Loses Millions

A series of Premiere League favorites winning this past weekend has cost bookmakers - including the UK’s largest, William Hill – millions of dollars.

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Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/20/2015

Super Bowl 2015 Not So Super For Fantasy Sports Leagues

According to the law, they can’t offer any Super Bowl action

The Super Bowl is annually the biggest betting day of the year for casino sportsbooks in Las Vegas.

More money will be wagered on that one game at the sportsbooks than any other sporting event of the year.

Submitted by Thomas Somach on, Jan/19/2015

The Future of Daily Fantasy Sports: FanDuel Going Public, No More Overlays, More

Takeaways from last week’s Fantasy Sports Trade Association Winter Conference were summed up on PartTimePoker.com with a special emphasis on the future of Daily Fantasy Sports courtesy of Eilers Research.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/19/2015

Super Bowl 2015 Betting Early Action Results in Dramatic Line Movements

Carrie Stroup here with news regarding the Super Bowl 2015 early betting action, which has been brisk to say the least at Sportsbook.ag.

Submitted by Carrie Stroup on, Jan/19/2015

Paddy Power Pays Shampoo Spokes Model David Ginola to Run for FIFA President

The ever controversial Irish-based bookmaker Paddy Power is said to be paying David Ginola, a L’Oreal Shampoo spokes model, $380,000 to run for FIFA President.

Submitted by C Costigan on, Jan/16/2015

Bitcoin is 10 Percent of Americas Cardroom’s Business Right Now Reveals CEO

Americas Cardroom CEO Phil Nagy tells Gambling911.com, the anonymous digital currency Bitcoin has thus far impressed at his online poker business.

“Bitcoin is doing good for us,” he told G911 this week.  “It is 10 percent of our overall business right now.”

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/16/2015

Pay Per Head for the NFL Conference Championships

Looking for a Pay Per Head for the NFL Conference Championships, look no further than PayPerHeadAgents.com for all your outsourcing needs.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/15/2015

Caesars Bankruptcy Filed Then Halted by Judge

Delaware/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The operating unit of Caesars Entertainment Corp, the largest U.S. casino company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Chicago on Thursday to cut $10 billion of debt, but a Delaware judge intervened to halt the case before it got started. 

The unusual legal standoff marked the start of a more public phase of complex and contentious debt negotiations. Until now, the company's attempts to cut interest payments after years of red ink have been kept mostly private.

Submitted by Reuters on, Jan/15/2015

Atlantic City Loses Half Its Revenue Over Eight Years

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - (Associated Press) -- Atlantic City has lost nearly half its casino revenue over the past eight years as competition in nearby states cannibalized its market and drove four casinos out of business.

Figures released Wednesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the casinos took in $2.74 billion in 2014, or about what the industry brought in in 1988. That is down 48 percent from a high of $5.2 billion in 2006. The decline would have been greater without the $122 million that Internet gambling provided last year.

Submitted by Associated Press on, Jan/14/2015

CFP Championship Game Attracts Record Betting for Some: Books Hit by OSU Win

The first ever CFP Championship Game between Ohio State and Oregon was a bonafide hit though it wasn’t exactly pretty for the books.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/13/2015

Fantasy Sports Leagues Embrace the NFL, But Shun College Football

Company Executives Tell Gambling911 Why That’s So And Why It’s Changing

When it comes to legal sports wagering at Las Vegas sportsbooks, more money is wagered on pro football than any other sport.

The NFL is No. 1 for the books and always has been.

The second most popular sport to bet on at the Vegas books is college football, not surprising considering the overall popularity nationally of the game of football.

So why hasn't this affection for NCAA football translated to fantasy sports the way NFL football has?

Submitted by Thomas Somach on, Jan/11/2015

Fantasy Site ScoreStreak.com Does Things Their Way

Site’s Unique Format Proves Popular With Fans

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- With a steady supply of computer- and Internet-savvy talent and some of the biggest techno-brains around, it's no surprise that Silicon Valley in Northern California has become Ground Zero for the Sports Fantasy League business, including much of the newer business in that industry that involves daily sports fantasy.

Submitted by Thomas Somach on, Jan/07/2015

Las Vegas Sands Gets Green Light for Paris-Themed Casino in Macau

The Asian gambling Mecca of Macau has approved a Paris-themed casino the Las Vegas Sands has asked to establish there.  Sands already operates a successful casino establishment in the former Portuguese colony, now a part of China.

The $2.7 billion Paris-themed integrated resort will feature a replica of the Eiffel Tower.  With more than 3,000 rooms, the Parisian Macao will bring more than 490,000 square feet of retail space, dining options, new meeting and convention facilities.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/05/2015

Macau Gambling Revenue Takes Record Plunge

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau, the world's biggest gambling hub, fell 2.6 per cent to 351.5 billion patacas (S$58.4 billion) in 2014, the territory's first annual decline since casinos were liberalised there in 2001.

This came as revenue plunged a record 30.4 per cent in December from a year earlier to 23.3 billion patacas, marking the seventh consecutive monthly decline, data released on Friday by Macau's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau showed.

Submitted by Reuters on, Jan/02/2015

Adult Entertainment Company Vivid Joins Forces With Fantasy Sports Site

Adult entertainment and fantasy have always worked great together….but Fantasy Sports?

Yes it’s true, the world’s largest purveyors of pornography, Vivid Entertainment, this week entered into a deal with the third largest Daily Fantasy Sports site DraftDay.com.

Submitted by Jagajeet Chiba on, Jan/01/2015

Professional Sports Leagues Find Great Value in Daily Fantasy Sports

The professional sports leagues are loving Daily Fantasy Sports...and with good reason.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/01/2015

Unibet Buys Bingo.com for $8 Million

Domain names are still a hot commodity and certain domain names are fetching big bucks.  This week, Bingo.com was sold to the online gambling firm Unibet for a cool $8 million.

Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Jan/01/2015

Nevada Gaming Revenue Flat in November

LAS VEGAS (Associated Press) - State officials say Nevada gambling revenue was virtually flat in November compared with the same month a year ago. Nevada Gaming Control Board officials reported Tuesday that the state's casinos brought in a little more than $876 million in November.

That was up less than one-tenth of a percent from November 2013. Las Vegas Strip gambling revenues of $508 million were down 4 percent year-over-year, while downtown revenue of $43 million was up 13 percent.

Submitted by Associated Press on, Dec/30/2014

Fantasy Sports Site PlayMLF.com to Announce First Pro Sponsorship Deal

Daily fantasy website Major League Fantasy (www.playmlf.com), which went into business just last month, will soon announce a partnership with the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League, sources told Gambling 911.

The arrangement will involve Major League Fantasy becoming an official sponsor of the NHL team, with MLF advertising appearing at Lightning games and in Lightning media, the sources said.

Submitted by Thomas Somach on, Dec/30/2014

New Fantasy Sports Site Draftster.com is Looking to Get Noticed

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- This tony Southern California beach town just outside Los Angeles has always been known for great waves and great surfing, not to mention seeing an occasional celebrity or two.

But as the base for an Internet fantasy sports league?

That's something that's more likely to come out of Northern California, where tech-obsessed Silicon Valley is located.

Submitted by Thomas Somach on, Dec/28/2014

TheScore Acquires Swoopt Daily Fantasy Sports App

While the Daily Fantasy Sports industry may be in its infancy, consolidation continues.  Last week it was announced that Toronto-based TheScore.com had acquired a mobile Fantasy sports app called Swoopt.  

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Submitted by Aaron Goldstein on, Dec/26/2014

Daily Fantasy Sports Operator Sports Tradex CEO Talks About Industry With G911

HOUSTON -- This sprawling Southwestern metropolis, now the country's fourth-largest city, has been home to many historic venues, such as the Astrodome and NASA headquarters.

And now it is the home of a sports fantasy company that is revolutionizing the industry--Sports Tradex (www.sportstradex.com).

Submitted by Thomas Somach on, Dec/23/2014

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Submitted by Payton on, Dec/22/2014

Breaking News

White Sox Suddenly Getting Kind of Hot

Don't look now but the Chicago White Sox are on a roll.  Winners of four of their last five, Chicago is looking to sweep the Kansas City Royals at home on Sunday.